Child Care Center Teacher

Child Care Center Teacher

Position Number: 0079619T, 0080702T, 0096648T

Hiring Unit: OFC of VP for Student Success, Student Co‑Curricular Success, Children's Center

Location:

University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Type:
Full Time, Temporary, 11‑month position, Band A

• * Maintain a high standard of professional and ethical conduct that complies with all established university and center policies.
• * Provide supervision, care, education, protection, and engagement at all times with a group of young children that complies with current licensing and accreditation standards, and established center policies.
• * Maintain daily childcare routines (e.g., diapering, hand washing, transitions) and all established UHMCC procedures in a caring, hygienic manner consistent with appropriate child development principles.
• * Adjust communication approach and messaging to support a language-, cultural-, and ability‑diverse community that includes administrators, colleagues, children and their families.
• * Collaborate with families to develop individual care and learning plans for each child that present developmentally appropriate challenges to promote the child's physical, intellectual, emotional and social wellbeing and growth within the context of that child's life.
• * Establish and maintain positive, collaborative relationships with families that encourage sharing of concerns and celebrate their child's accomplishments.
• * Establish and maintain positive, collaborative, professional, mutually respectful relationships with colleagues at all times.
• * Demonstrate a practical understanding of the UHMCC Universal Teaching Practices, and regularly implement each practice in a small group setting.
• * Demonstrate a practical understanding of the Braided Curriculum, and provide each child with full access to the entire curriculum throughout the year.
• * Demonstrate a practical understanding of child development and an ability to conduct and appropriately use assessments of child progress patterns to develop individualized care and learning plans with families.
• * Demonstrate a practical understanding of classroom design in a developmentally appropriate, welcoming, and engaging manner that incorporates a variety of materials in sufficient quantity to implement the defined unit plan for all children in the classroom.
• Ensure families regularly receive adequate and meaningful information about their child's experiences and growth over time through daily contacts, semi‑annual parent conferences, individualized child portfolios, and written communication.
• Support family engagement by providing opportunities for families to participate in classroom activities; provide transitional space for children and families to enter and leave the classroom; provide family networking activities and other types of activities that enhance the care and learning experience for both the child and their family.
• Document curriculum experiences in the classroom environment and on weekly newsletters to families and staff.
• Plan and implement appropriately detailed unit plans that adequately describe key activities that progressively develop specific learning objectives.
• Provide care and comfort to young children as needed, which may require lifting and carrying children of up to 50 pounds in weight intermittently throughout the day.
• Maintain outdoor learning spaces, and additional spaces and materials shared with other classrooms, in a manner that is safe, reasonably clean and orderly, developmentally appropriate to all children engaged in the space, and aesthetically pleasing.
• Actively participate in staff meetings and review all meeting support materials.
• Actively participate and complete all required program training.
• Develop and implement an individual professional development plan in collaboration with program administration, demonstrating continual progress through the plan.
• Oversee and support student employees, volunteers and interns to ensure a healthy, safe, and caring environment for young children.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Possession of a baccalaureate degree in Early Childhood Education/Child Development or related field…